Allen Jenkins
Acting
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Allen Jenkins (April 9, 1900 – July 20, 1974) was an American character actor on stage, screen and television. He was born Alfred McGonegal on Staten Island, New York. He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In his first stage appearance, he danced next to James Cagney in a chorus line for an off-Broadway musical called Pitter-Patter. He made five dollars a week. He also appeared one thousand times in Broadway plays between 1924 and 1962, including The Front Page with Lee Tracy (1928). His big break came when he replaced Spencer Tracy for three weeks in the Broadway play The Last Mile. He was called to Hollywood by Darryl F. Zanuck and signed first to Paramount Pictures and shortly afterwards to Warner Bros. He originated the character of Frankie Wells in the Broadway production of Blessed Event and reprised the role in the film adaptation, both in 1932. With the advent of talking pictures, he made a career out of playing comic henchmen, stooges, policemen and other "tough guys" in numerous films of the 1930s and 1940s, especially for Warner Bros. He was labeled the "greatest scene-stealer of the 1930s" by the New York Times. He voiced the character of "Officer Dibble" on the Hanna-Barbera television cartoon Top Cat and was a regular on the 1956-1957 television situation comedy Hey, Jeannie! (1956), starring Jeannie Carson. He was also a guest star on The Red Skelton Show, I Love Lucy, Playhouse 90, The Ernie Kovacs Show, Zane Grey Theater, and The Sid Caesar Show. Eleven days before his death he made his final appearance, at the end of Billy Wilder's 1974 film adaptation of The Front Page. He went public with his alcoholism and was the first actor to speak in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate about it. He helped start the first Alcoholics Anonymous programs in California prisons for women. Jenkins, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien and Frank McHugh were the original members of the so-called "Irish Mafia". He was the seventh member of the Screen Actors Guild. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allen Jenkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
as Barney Sykes
Age 32 (now 74)
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
as Self (archive footage)
Age 105 (now 74)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
Age 86 (now 74)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 82 (now 74)
Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!
as Joe Bonney
Age 67 (now 74)
The Spy in the Green Hat
as Enzo 'Pretty' Stilletto
Age 66 (now 74)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as Cop (uncredited)
Age 63 (now 74)
The Case of the Baby-Sitter
as Howard 'Harvard' Quinlan
Age 47 (now 74)
Three Cheers for the Girls
as Marine Sergeant in Chorus (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 43 (now 74)
Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!
as Ed aka The Weasel
Age 39 (now 74)
Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite
as Steve McBride
Age 39 (now 74)
Breakdowns of 1938
as Shiner Ward / Duke Dennis (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 38 (now 74)
Talent Scout
as Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 37 (now 74)
Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
as Self
Age 35 (now 74)
Things You Never See on the Screen
as Self
Age 35 (now 74)
Employees' Entrance
as Sweeney, store detective (uncredited)
Age 32 (now 74)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
as Barney Sykes
Age 32 (now 74)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Enzo 'Pretty' Stilletto
Age 64 (now 74)
The Abbott and Costello Show
as Retired Actors Home Man on Street
Age 52 (now 74)
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Also Known As
Alfred McGonegal, Allen Curtis Jenkins
IMDB
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